Databse of political party documents

Produce a database covering the policy-programme documents – such as election manifestos, coalition agreements, government statements of political parties and (coalition) governments from the regional level of 10 case study Member States over time (at least two legislative periods). This will involve collecting party policy documents and transforming them into machine-readable documents to enable the application of semi- and fully-computerised methods of content analysis to extract the European policy position of parties and governments acting on the sub-state level. This exercise will be able to exploit and build on an existing database that covers the full text of more than 1,700 election manifestos of parties from the regional level in eight EU Member States.